Genre Essentials: Comedy — 10 Comedy Resources [Blogs, Websites, Journals, Magazines, DVD Commentaries] You Must Track

When you are writing an original screenplay within a specific genre, you really should know the heart, soul and guts of that genre. This will inform every step of your creative and writing process: concept, character development, brainstorming, plotting, tone, style, atmosphere, voice, pace, and so on. There are certain attributes common to each genre, and you need to know as much about them as possible, if you want to follow, reverse or break those conventions.

Obviously you can’t read and watch everything, but isn’t there a way to cover the essentials?

Which led me to a new GITS series: Genre Essentials.

This week: Comedy.

Today: — 10 Resources [Blogs, Websites, Journals, Magazines, DVD Commentaries] You Must Track.

Please post your suggestions in comments. Let’s do our best to generate quality suggestions for the other categories.

To read your suggestions for 10 Comedy Movies You Must See, go here.

To read your suggestions for 10 Comedy Scripts You Must Analyze, go here.

To read your suggestions for 10 Comedy Books [Fiction] You Must Read, go here.

To read your suggestions for 10 Comedy Books [Non-Fiction] You Must Cover, go here.

Next week: Drama.

I am pleased to announce that Shaula Evans has kindly agreed to oversee the flow of resource suggestions for the Genre Essentials series, and she’s had to work hard to manage the recommendations, literally hundreds of suggestions for both action and comedy movies. I will be posting those complete lists as well as 20 titles or so on which the GITS community can vote to get our final group.

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